{"id":129270,"date":"2026-01-23T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:51:28","slug":"allapattah-restaurant-security-guard-arrested-for-shooting-patron-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129270\/","title":{"rendered":"Allapattah restaurant security guard arrested for shooting patron, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A 29-year-old security guard at a restaurant in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighborhood shot and wounded a patron after a December dispute, police said. He\u2019s now accused of attempted murder following his arrest on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami police, the shooting happened at about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 14 at the Republica Food &amp; Lounge. The Dominican eatery, located at 1260 NW 36th St., was the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/08\/accused-gunman-arrested-after-allapattah-restaurant-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/08\/accused-gunman-arrested-after-allapattah-restaurant-shooting\/\">another shooting<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the victim had been barred from reentering the establishment after getting into an altercation with someone who was dancing with his girlfriend. According to an arrest report, the victim said he and a security guard, later identified as Dairon Gonzalez Pena, began pushing each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim then claimed he was \u201cjumped\u201d by Gonzalez and a group of the security guard\u2019s friends. According to the report, the victim told investigators that he went behind a vehicle and Gonzalez followed him and pointed a purple gun at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that Gonzalez asked the victim, in Spanish, \u201cTu quieres esto?\u201d \u2015 translating to, \u201cDo you want this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the victim thought that because of the gun\u2019s color, it was fake, so he replied, \u201cSi, dame,\u201d or \u201cYeah, go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the man quickly found out the purple pistol was real when Gonzalez opened fire. The victim ran after the first shot and said he heard four more and was hit once in the lower left leg. Authorities said Gonzalez got into a gray vehicle and took off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they responded and found the wounded victim at a nearby bus stop; medics took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they were able to identify Gonzalez as a suspect and the victim picked him out of a photo lineup. They said they took him in for questioning on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Gonzalez told police that he went to get his Taurus 9 mm gun after the man retreated to his vehicle, since he didn\u2019t know what the victim was doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said that Gonzalez claimed he only shot once in the air \u201cto scare the victim since he was coming toward him with a knife\u201d and said \u201che did not call the police since he did not think that police were needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives evidently did not agree with Gonzalez\u2019s claim of self-defense and arrested him on charges of attempted murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday morning, Gonzalez was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, with a bond listed as \u201cto be set\u201d in online records.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A 29-year-old security guard at a restaurant in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighborhood shot and wounded a patron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-129270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}